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- I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more…
- If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the…
- What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all…
- When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the…
- My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and…
- Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does…
- The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together,…
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